i even use the web to get paid. with acceptpay from american express open, we now invoice advertisers and receive payments digitally. and i get paid on average three weeks faster. booming is never looking for a check in the mail. because it's already in my email. >> larry: john avlon, what about this hardly mentioned or not mentioned at all tonight, what about the costs of all of this? >> well, by some estimates a trillion dollars to date. that's just the financial costs, of course. and as president obama made the point, the simple decision of going into iraq had enormous consequences not only financial but i think we recognize now in terms of a lack of focus and attention on afghanistan. i think the other cost really is the unity of the country. i think we forget the country was deeply unified after september 11th and through afghanistan to dislodge the taliban and go after al qaeda and osama bin laden. the decision to go into iraq which in retrospect appears as an optional war and that will have its own ramificati